Social media platform Hootsuite on Thursday announced it closed in on $60 million in new funding, bringing the company's total funding to $250 million. The Vancouver-based firm also said it was buying Zeetl, a Canadian social telephony startup, which...

The battle for social-media supremacy isn't as bloody as the wars in Game of Thrones, but what would Westeros and Essos look like if House Stark, House Lannister and House Targaryen were replaced with House Facebook, House Google and House Twitter? I...

HootSuite has bounced back from a denial of service (DoS) attack on Thursday morning that prevented users from accessing the social media platform. The attack started around 9:45 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, according to a blog post from CEO Ryan Holm...

The No. 1 complaint from businesses new to social media is: “I just don’t have time.” What these people don’t realize is that social media doesn’t always require a huge commitment, especially Twitter. As Facebook constantly changes its algorithm and ...

Buffer, the social-media management app that lets users schedule posts to sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+, has reached 1 million registered users, according to co-founder Leo Widrich. The milestone comes on the heels of a busy summer for ...

Juggling multiple social media accounts across several networks can get hectic, especially when there's a fine line between a manageable number of browser tabs and a terrible guessing game. Self-respecting social media addicts should test the many ma...

HootSuite, the Vancouver-based creator of the social media management system of the same name, announced on Thursday it had secured $165 million in Series B funding, putting its valuation likely on the $1 billion-plus range. Ryan Holmes (pictured), t...

TweetDeck announced in a blog post in early March that Twitter will remove its older apps from their respective app stores in May. That means TweetDeck for iPhone and Android, respectively, won't be available for much longer, and the apps will stop w...

HootSuite has acquired Seesmic, one of its competitors in the social media management space, for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced on Thursday. HootSuite's CEO Ryan Holmes told TechCrunch that the main motivation for this acquisition is...

There are 42 million freelancers in the U.S. alone. Although the beauty of being a part of this large group is that you can call your own shots -- from having a flexible schedule to picking the best workspace for your style -- juggling multiple proje...

When it comes to Twitter clients, consumers have a lot of choice. But what management systems are preferred by top brands? According to Pingdom, HootSuite rules the roost; of the 96 brands with a Twitter account indexed in Interbrand's top 100 global...

Social media management dashboard HootSuite added popular photo-sharing app Instagram and three more social apps to its App Directory on Thursday. The Instagram app on HootSuite allows people to view photos, comments, likes and searches, as well as a...

Hootsuite is expanding its App Directory, adding support for MailChimp, Chime.in, Identi.ca, Vision Critical Surveys, and RSS Reader. The new apps are available starting Tuesday for all 4 million of HootSuite's Free, Pro and Enterprise clients. “Busi...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. If you're running a company website without an analytics dashboard, you ma...

HootSuite’s energetic CEO Ryan Holmes founded Invoke Media, the agency that created the highly successful social media dashboard. He has been active in all aspects of HootSuite's operations, focusing on strategy, business and product development, as ...

At 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) tomorrow, March 15, streaming live exclusively on Mashable, Hootsuite Founder Ryan Holmes will be answering questions from readers. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s program called YEC Global, Holmes will be answer...

Fresh off reaching 3 million users in January, social media management dashboard HootSuite is adding three apps to its App Directory and releasing its Engagement API. Users can now integrate Digg, InboxQ and Trendspottr into their dashboards starting...

A new HootSuite user in Brazil has just become the social media management dashboard's 3 millionth user. The tool, which launched in December 2008, previously hit 2 million users in July 2011 and signed up another million individuals and brands in si...

Google has launched a pilot program that will let owners of Google+ Pages manage their accounts via third-party apps such as HootSuite, Involver and Buddy Media. The program will grant six companies early access to the Google+ API for the specific pu...

Hootsuite is adding geosocial to its arsenal of marketing tools with the acquisition of Geotoko, a service for running location-based marketing campaigns. Geotoko, which made its debut last year at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference, lets users manage...

HootSuite is adding LinkedIn Company Pages and Groups, the social media management tool announced on Thursday. The integration is key for HootSuite -- which previously only supported LinkedIn profiles -- in evolving side-by-side with its main user ba...

Does posting to Facebook via third-party apps make any difference to how engaged your fans are? Does Facebook's algorithm discriminate against content management apps? The people at Applum, creators of Edgerank Checker, decided to find out. They anal...

HootSuite, the social media dashboard and analytics tool, has reached a new milestone: 2 million users. Invoke Media released HootSuite in December 2008 and it is widely used by individuals as well as organizations, governments and businesses. The Wh...

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Call it Cloudgate, Cloudpocalyse or whatever you'd like, but the extended collapse of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is both a setback for cloud computing and an opportunity for us to figure out how to stop it from happening again. Amazon may be ...

Some of Amazon's AWS services, which together comprise the company's cloud computing platform, are currently experiencing technical difficulties, and it's very visible on the social web. HootSuite, Reddit and Foursquare are some of the sites that rel...

After a few recent embarrassing tweets that were sent by brands clicking on the wrong account, HootSuite has added some new security features to try and prevent such mishaps. The company has introduced Secure Profiles, a new feature that prompts user...

HootSuite, the award-winning social media web-based dashboard, has launched Social Analytics, its custom solution for measuring your social platforms and site performance in one place. After pushing several updates to its analytics in the past year, ...

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